There is also, separately from that, a need to protect kids from growing up into the people in Idiocracy.

Getting children to not grow up into idiots requires intense parental interactions, healthy environments, and the ability to explore and get hurt. Identification isn't even on the list.

They already failed to do that by steadily eroding the educational system and its standards over the last 50-70 years. We’re already there. The electorate can’t locate the countries on a map in which the US is fighting multiple wars in their name.

Banning Instagram ain’t gonna fix that.

This is not in any way whatsoever about children.